2007/5 94CIRIACONO, Salvatore
Building on water : Venice, Holland,
and the construction of the European landscape in early modern times / Salvatore
Ciriacono ; translated by Jeremy Scott. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2006. - X,
308 str. : zvd. ; 24 cm

Dostopno tudi na:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip071/2006029612.html. - Bibliografija: str.
[206]-220. - Kazalo. - Vsebina: The total work of art in an age of mechanical
reproduction ; Total stage: Wagner's Festspielhaus ; Total machine: the Bauhaus
theatre ; Total montage: Brecht's reply to Wagner ; Total state: Riefenstahl's
Triumph of the will ; Total world: Disney's theme parks ; Total vacuum: Warhol's
performances ; Total immersion: cyberspace and the total work of art
ISBN 978-0-415-97795-1 (vez.) ISBN 978-0-415-97796-8 (broš.)

Bibliografija: str. 199-208. - Kazalo. - Vsebina: The doctrines of gender. The
prevalence of transvestism. Clothing as gender landscape ; Clothing sex, sexing
clothes : transvestism, material culture and the sex and gender debate. The
importance of sex and gender. Dress and identity : transvestism and material
culture. 'Is gender to culture as sex is to nature?' : transvestism and the
discourses of sex and gender. Corporeality and the politics of sex. Clothing the
brain ; Transvestites in the UK : the dream of fair women. Are those women's
clothes? Fieldwork in the UK. Becoming extraordinary : the experience of the
transvestite in Western societies. Becoming 'the other.' UK transvestites :
interviews with Anthony/Suzanne, John/Joy, Dan/Shelly, Gavin/Gina and
Simon/Sandra. The range of possibilities. Clothing choices. Some conclusions
about UK transvestites ; Disorder within the pattern : the hijras of India.
Fieldwork in India. Hijras in context : who are hijras? Why the hijras? The need
to categorise : studies of the hijras. Becoming a hijra. Hijras and the
principle of male and female union. Hijras and religion ; Crossing gender
boundaries in cultural context : fieldwork comparisons and cultural influences.
cross-dressing and clothing choices. Differences in lifestyle. Transvestism
within contrasting cosmological contexts ; Dressing up/dressing down :
reconsidering sex and gender culture. Woman=soft, man=hard : concepts of
language made material. Gendered emotions and the ceremony of naven. Masculine
representation of the feminine. Jung and the inner world of opposites. sex,
gender or sexuality? Crossing gender as an 'institutionalised' role. The
Brazilian travestis. Binary categorisation as 'common sense.' Masculinity,
femininity ; genetics and mosaics. The correlates of gender culture-transvestism
as material objectification. Cross-cultural evidence and the conceptualisation
of gender crossing. Marking gender ; Thinking of themselves : transvestism and
concepts of the person. Transvestism as a social phenomenon. Concepts of the
person, individual and society in India and England : cultural contexts of
transvestites and hijras. Contrasting concepts of self within the Hindu and
Western traditions. Individuality and identity. Personhood and transvestism in
cross-cultural perspective. Blurring the boundaries : deconstructing theories of
the self. Transvestites, constructed selves, and issues of sex and gender. A
broader conceptualisation of transvestism. 'This is an absurd ordination for
people to live in, in 2002'
ISBN 1-85973-720-X (cloth) ISBN 1-85973-725-0 (broš.)